"proportion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

proportion sustantivo

sustantivo + proportion
Kolokacji: 18
proportion of one's income • proportion of students • proportion of people • proportion of one's citizens • body proportion • ...
proportion + verbo
Kolokacji: 32
proportion rises • proportion increases • proportion falls • proportion varies • proportion declines • ...
verbo + proportion
Kolokacji: 17
reach proportions • contain a proportion • assume proportions • make up a proportion • blow out of proportion • ...
adjetivo + proportion
Kolokacji: 125
large proportion • high proportion • small proportion • significant proportion • great proportion • direct proportion • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 27
(4) direct, inverse
Kolokacji: 2
(8) certain, definite
Kolokacji: 2
(10) mythic, mythical, legendary
Kolokacji: 3
(11) historic, momentous
Kolokacji: 2
(14) perfect, ideal
Kolokacji: 2
(18) overall, rough, approximate
Kolokacji: 3
(20) overwhelming, exaggerated
Kolokacji: 2
(21) monstrous, grotesque
Kolokacji: 2
(24) epidemic, pandemic
Kolokacji: 2
1. epidemic proportion = proporcja epidemii epidemic proportion
  • It reached epidemic proportions last week, when five of the six games played were decided by a shootout.
  • In 1528 the disease reached epidemic proportions for the fourth time and with great severity.
  • Incompetence has, I fear, reached epidemic proportions of late in our local police force.
  • This problem reached epidemic proportions among blacks, where now more than four out of every 10 families are headed by women.
  • By the mid-1979 corruption reached epidemic proportions as the economy collapsed.
  • In some areas, outbreaks have been of almost epidemic proportions, affecting crop production, livestock and human health.
  • The killings resumed in 1982 and in 1984 they reached epidemic proportions.
  • The illness is now found in about 35 states, and it reached epidemic proportions on parts of Long Island last summer.
  • Although sign theft has always been a problem along this highway, thefts reached epidemic proportions when the pending number change was announced.
  • With the help of the crusaders and other travelers, leprosy reached epidemic proportions by the 13th century.
2. pandemic proportion = pandemiczna proporcja pandemic proportion
(25) elegant, graceful, exquisite
Kolokacji: 3
(26) harmonious, balanced
Kolokacji: 2
(27) constant, variable
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + proportion
Kolokacji: 10
of proportions • in proportion • to proportions • out of proportion • for a proportion • ...

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